Onchidoris tenella

Onchidoris tenella is a species of sea slug, a dorid nudibranch, a shell-less marine gastropod mollusc in the family Onchidorididae.[2]

Onchidoris tenella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Heterobranchia

clade Euthyneura
clade Nudipleura
clade Nudibranchia
clade Euctenidiacea

clade Doridacea
Superfamily:
Onchidoridoidea
Family:
Onchidorididae
Genus:
Onchidoris
Species:
O. tenella
Binomial name
Onchidoris tenella
(Gould, 1870)[1]

Distribution

This species was described from Beverly, Massachusetts on the Atlantic Ocean coast of the United States.

References
  1. Gould, A. A. (1870). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, published agreeably to an order of the legislature. Second edition, comprising the Mollusca. Edited By W. G. Binney, v + 524 pp. pls. XVIXXVII.
  2. Rosenberg, G. (2015). Onchidoris tenella. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species on 2016-01-21.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.